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This Is Hell!The Dark History of American Orphanhood / Kristen Martin
Journalist and cultural critic Kristen Martin joins “This Is Hell!” to talk about her new book, "The Sun Won’t Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American…
This Is Hell!Worker-to-Worker Organizing / Eric Blanc
Labor scholar Eric Blanc joins us to discuss his new book published just today by the University of California Press titled, "We Are the Union: How…
This Is Hell!Hitler's Takeover Was Completely Constitutional / Timothy Ryback
Historian Timothy W. Ryback joins us to discuss his Atlantic essays, "How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days: He used the constitution to shatter the…
This Is Hell!A New Political Ecology Is Needed to Change the World / Erald Kolasi
Physicist Erald Kolasi returns to “This Is Hell!” to talk about his new book, "The Physics of Capitalism: How a New Political Ecology Can Change the World”…
This Is Hell!Chuck has Covid pt. 2: Technoauthoritarian Frontiers / Quinn Slobodian & Greg Grandin
Chuck is out of action this week COVID, so we are featuring past interviews with upcoming guests who all have new books coming out on the days we are scheduled…
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Chuck has Covid pt. 1: Socialist Futures / Jodi Dean & Erald Kolasi
Chuck is out of action this week COVID, so we are featuring past interviews with upcoming guests who all have new books coming out on the days we are scheduled…
This Is Hell!Law Enforcement Needs to Get Serious About the Far Right / Mike German
Mike German, co-author with Beth Zasloff of the new book, "Policing White Supremacy: The Enemy Within," returns to This is Hell! Mike is a former FBI agent who…
This Is Hell!How Technofacism is Rooted in Silicon Valley / Becca Lewis
Disinformation and far-right digital media scholar Becca Lewis, who posted The Guardian article, “‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon…
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How Thiel, Musk, and Other Tech Billionaires Bought the Liberal Media / Eoin Higgins
Journalist and historian Eoin Higgins, author of the new book, "Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left." "The Moment…
This Is Hell!What Different Parts of the World Has That the US Lacks / Natasha Hakimi Zapata
Award-winning journalist Natasha Hakimi Zapata joins us to discuss her new book, “Another World Is Possible: Lessons For America From Around The Globe”…
This Is Hell!Putting the Community in Community Schools Can Save Public Education / Jeff Bryant
Jeff Bryant joins us to discuss his recent writing on the threats facing community public education and the ways schools and communities are resisting them…
This Is Hell!Parenting Toward Abolition / Maya Schenwar & Kim Wilson
Maya Schenwar returns to This is Hell! Maya will be joined by the co-editor Kim Wilson who are co-editors of the new collection, "We Grow the World Together…
This Is Hell!Our Grief and Mourning can Interrupt the Flow of Capitalism / Sarah Jaffe
Sarah Jaffe, author of “Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone and Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt”…
This Is Hell!Defunding the Police and Abolition as Forms of Democracy / Sonali Kolhatkar
Sonali Kolhatkar, author of “Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice” joins us to discuss her new book “Talking About Abolition: A…
This Is Hell!Spotify's Plot Against Musicians / Liz Pelly
Liz Pelly joins This Is Hell! to discuss her Harper's cover article titled "The Ghosts in the Machine: Spotify's Plot Against Musicians," excerpted from her…
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Best of 2024: A Forceful History of Black Resistance / Kellie Carter Jackson
Kellie Carter-Jackson returns to discuss her new book, We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance (Seal Press). Help keep This Is Hell! completely…
This Is Hell!Best of 2024: Right-Wing Conspiracy, Trafficking inside the Catholic Church / Gareth Gore
Best of 2024: Gareth Gore on his book, "Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church," published by…
This Is Hell!Best of 2024: Louisiana Is a Testbed for a Fascist State Apparatus / Gabrielle Perry
Gabrielle Perry joins us to discuss her recent Scalawag article, "Louisiana is the blueprint for further fascist repression." Help keep This Is Hell!…
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Best of 2024: Cop Feminisms / Sophie Lewis
Returning to This is Hell! is listener favorite Sophie Lewis, author of Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family, as well as Abolish the Family: A Manifesto…
This Is Hell!Best of 2024: Enshittification / Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow on his Financial Times article, "‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything: The term describes the slow decay of online platforms…
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Best of 2024: Against Resilience / Ajay Singh Chaudhary
Ajay Singh Chaudhary returns to This Is Hell! to talk about his Baffler Magazine article, "Sick and Tired: Against Resilience," an excerpt from, The Exhausted…
This Is Hell!Best of 2024: Ketamine / Dan Piepenbring
Dan Piepenbring on his Baffler article, "K-Pop: Our forefathers did dissociatives." Dan is the New Books columnist for Harper’s and the co-author, with Tom…
This Is Hell!Best of 2024: Ideologies of Climate Change / Tad DeLay
Tad DeLay returns to This Is Hell! to discuss his new book from Verso, Future of Denial: The Ideologies of Climate Change. "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff…
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Best of 2024: New Apostolic Reformation Wages Spiritual Warfare on Demon-crats / Matthew Taylor
Matthew D. Taylor joins us to discuss his book, The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy, published just…
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Best of 2024: Taking Down Fat Phobia / Kate Manne
Kate Manne returns to talk about her book, Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia. Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus…
This Is Hell!Best of 2024: "From the River to the Sea" Means Freedom and Equality for All, Not Genocide of Jews / Stephen Zunes
Past guest Stephen Zunes returns to speak with us about his recent Truthout writing including, "Biden Continues to Provide Israel Billions for War Crimes,"…
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Best of 2024: Armed Struggle for Black Liberation in Southern California / Gerald Horne
Historian Gerald Horne returns to the show to discuss his new book, Armed Struggle?: Panthers & Communists; Black Nationalists and Liberals in Southern…
This Is Hell!Best of 2024: Why You Should Hate the Ruling Class for Its Obscene Wealth / Rob Larson
Economist Rob Larson returns to This Is Hell! to dicsuss Mastering the Universe: The Obscene Wealth of the Ruling Class, What They Do with Their Money, and Why…
This Is Hell!Best of 2024: Zionist Feminism / Sophie Lewis
We wrap up the week with the return of writer, theorist, and recovering academic Sophie Lewis to talk about her new writing at Salvage Magazine, "Some of my…
This Is Hell!Hindu Supremacy on College Campuses and the Diaspora / Nevin Kallepalli
Nevin Kallepalli joins us to discuss his writing at the Baffler, “Hindutva University: Meet the group spreading Hindu supremacist propaganda on college…
This Is Hell!The Persistence of the US Nuclear Deterrence Policy / Elaine Scarry
Elaine Scarry joins us to discuss her writing at the Boston Review, “The Extortionist Doctrine : On the persistence of U.S. nuclear deterrence policy.’”…
This Is Hell!Big Oil's Climate Change Cover-Up Began in the 1950s / Rebecca John
Rebecca John joins us to discuss her writing at DeSmog, "Revealed: Big Oil Told 70 Years Ago That Fossil Fuel Emissions Could Impact ‘Civilization.’" "Rotten…
This Is Hell!Liberalism Will Cost Us The Earth / Alberto Toscano
Alberto Toscano joins us to discuss his In These TImes piece, "Liberalism Will Cost Us the Earth - Trump’s recoronation is another symptom of centrism’s global…
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Project Esther: A Trumpian Blueprint to Crush Anticolonial Resistance / Yoav Litvin
Yoav Litvin joins us to discuss his Al Jazeera column, "Project Esther: A Trumpian blueprint to crush anticolonial resistance: The Heritage Foundation strategy…
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Famine Denial's Past and Present / Alex De Waal
Author and scholar Alex de Waal returns to the show to discuss his recent article at the Boston Review titled "Engineers of Calamity - Famine Denial's Past and…
This Is Hell!Betting on US Elections / Francis Northwood
Francis Northwood joins us to discuss his new Baffler article titles "Unsafe Bets - Polymarket’s great expectations". Check out Francis' article…
This Is Hell!Trump Presidency Will Expand Unilateral Presidential Power / Karen Greenberg
Legal scholar Karen Greenberg returns to the show to discuss her recent article at TomDispatch titled "It’s Not Just About the President It’s About the…
This Is Hell!Cop Feminisms / Sophie Lewis
Returning to This is Hell! is listener favorite Sophie Lewis, author of Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family, as well as Abolish the Family: A Manifesto…
This Is Hell!Feminist Villains / Nicole Froio
Co-founder of the new feminist blog, Flytrap, Nicole Froio joins us to discuss her new piece titled, "The (Feminist) Empire Strikes Back." The Flytrap Media is…
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The Military Industrial Complex on Campus / Sylvia Martin
Anthropologist Sylvia J. Martin discusses her recent the Monthly Review article, "UARCs: The American Universities that Produce Warfighters." She is the author…
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Breaking the Public Schools / Jennifer Berkshire
Returning to the show for the third time, Jennifer C. Berkshire wrote the American Prospect article, "Breaking the Public Schools: Red states are enacting…
This Is Hell!Abolish Rent / Tracy Rosenthal
Tracy Rosenthal returns to discuss her new book, "Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis" from Haymarket Books. Check out Tracy's book here…
This Is Hell!Abolish Rent / Tracy Rosenthal
Tracy Rosenthal returns to discuss her new book, "Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis" from Haymarket Books. "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff…
This Is Hell!A "Pride Paradox" Fuels Far-Right Politics in Appalachia / Arlie Hochschild
National Book Award finalist Arlie Russell Hochschild returns to This is Hell! to speak with us about her new book, "Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of…
This Is Hell!Tyrannical Couty Sheriffs in the United States Threaten Democracy / Jessica Pishko
Journalist and lawyer Jessica Pishko joins us to discuss her new book, "The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy."…
This Is Hell!We Have Never Been Woke / Musa al-Gharbi
Sociologist Musa al-Gharbi returns to discuss his new book, "We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite," published just today by…
This Is Hell!The New Apostolic Reformation Wages Spiritual Warfare on Demon-crats / Matthew Taylor
Matthew D. Taylor joins us to discuss his book, "The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy," published just…
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Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church / Gareth Gore
Gareth Gore on his book, "Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church," published just today by Simon…
This Is Hell!Staten Island's Politics of Resentment / Dennis Hogan
We have a treat for all you New Yorkers out there. Writer, academic, organizer, and fourth-generation Staten Islander Dennis Hogan joins us to discuss his…
This Is Hell!Gaza Genocide Divides the Organization of American States / Francesca Emanuele
Center for Economic and Policy Research's Francesca Emanuele on her article, "Gaza Is Causing Diplomatic Rifts in the Western Hemisphere: The Organization of…
This Is Hell!A Forceful History of Black Resistance / Kellie Carter Jackson
Kellie Carter-Jackson returns to discuss her new book, "We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance" (Seal Press). "Rotten History" by Renaldo Migaldi…
This Is Hell!Wealthy States Outsource Their Borders to Poorer, Indebted States / Heba Gowayed
Heba Gowayed discusses her In These Times article, "Borders and the Exchange of Humans for Debt: Borders and debt are new instruments of violence in a system…
This Is Hell!Heat, A History / On Barak
Returning to This is Hell!, On Barak, author of, "Heat, a History Lessons from the Middle East for a Warming Planet." On is a social and cultural historian of…
This Is Hell!Welcome to the New Feudalism / Ben Norton
Ben Norton joins us to discuss his recent article at the Geopolitical Economy Report titled, "How US Big Tech monopolies colonized the world: Welcome to…
This Is Hell!Louisiana Is a Testbed for a Fascist State Apparatus / Gabrielle Perry
Gabrielle Perry joins us to discuss her recent Scalawag article, "Louisiana is the blueprint for further fascist repression." Jeff Dorchen delivers a new "The…
This Is Hell!Academic Freedom Under Threat at Public Universities / Shilpa Jindia
Shilpa Jindia discusses her recent Baffler article, "Freedom from Dissent: The Independence of Public Universities Is Under Attack." "Rotten History" by…
This Is Hell!Torture Is Systemic in Israel's Prisons / Shai Parnes
Shai Parnes, Spokesperson for B'Tselem, The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, on their new report, "Welcome to Hell," a…
This Is Hell!Why You Should Hate the Ruling Class for Its Obscene Wealth / Rob Larson
Economist Rob Larson returns to This Is Hell! to dicsuss "Mastering the Universe: The Obscene Wealth of the Ruling Class, What They Do with Their Money, and…
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Far-Right, Anti-Immigration Riots in the UK / Daniel Trilling
Daniel Trilling discusses his London Review of Books article, "This Time It's Worse," on the UK far-right riots. "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen and…
This Is Hell!Listener Picks: Peter Thiel's Dream of Capitalism without Democracy / Quinn Slobodian
Historian Quinn Slobodian joins This is Hell! to discuss his new book, Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy. Quinn…